US20140268908A1 - Converter topologies - Google Patents
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- the present disclosure relates, generally, to power converters for converting direct current (DC) power to alternating current (AC) power and, more particularly, to boost converter topologies for stepping up DC power.
- Power inverters convert a DC power to an AC power.
- some power inverters are configured to convert the DC power to an AC power suitable for supplying energy to an AC grid and, in some cases, an AC load that may or may not be coupled to the AC grid.
- One particular application for such power inverters is the conversion of DC power generated by an alternative energy source, such as photovoltaic cells (“PV cells” or “solar cells”), fuel cells, DC wind turbine, DC water turbine, and other DC power sources, to a single-phase AC power for delivery to the AC grid at the grid frequency.
- PV cells photovoltaic cells
- the amount of power that can be delivered by certain alternative energy sources, such as PV cells may vary in magnitude over time due to temporal variations in operating conditions.
- the output of a typical PV cell will vary as a function of variations in sunlight intensity, angle of incidence of sunlight, ambient temperature and other factors.
- Such power inverters typically include a DC-DC converter to step up the voltage from a relatively low DC voltage (e.g., 30 V) to a power bus voltage of the inverter (e.g., 400 V).
- the converter may be designed with any one of a number of different topologies. Common topologies include, for example, an isolated boost converter design, a “flyback” converter design, and a “series-LLC” converter design, each of which have distinct operational characteristics and/or components.
- the isolated boost converter is a “hard-switched” converter (i.e., the switches and diodes simultaneously experience a high current and high voltage stress during a switching transition) and often includes an active clamp circuit across a switch bridge to absorb mismatched current and limit the voltage.
- the flyback design is a generally simple converter topology having relatively simple control and gate drive requirements but has significant switch stresses and is an inherently hard-switched design.
- the series-LLC converter has an inherently soft-switched design and low voltage stresses and typically does not require an active clamp circuit.
- series-LLC converters are fundamentally voltage-fed; because the input voltage generated by the PV cells may vary significantly over time, series-LLC converters must account for such variation. Accordingly, voltage-fed topologies tend to “step down” the voltage prior to boosting voltage (e.g., via a turns ratio of the transformer), which can result in inefficiency for the converter.
- an inverter may be associated with one or more solar cell panels.
- some systems include strings of solar cell panels that deliver a relatively high, combined voltage (e.g., nominal 450 V) to a single, large inverter.
- an inverter may be associated with each solar cell panel.
- the solar cell panels are typically small, relatively low voltage (e.g., 25 V).
- the inverter may be placed in close proximity to the associated solar cell panel to increase the conversion efficiency of the overall system.
- an inverter for converting an input direct current (DC) waveform from a DC source to an output alternating current (AC) waveform for delivery to an AC grid may include an input converter electrically coupled to a DC power bus.
- the input converter may be configured to convert the input DC waveform to a bus waveform supplied to the DC power bus.
- the input converter may include a full bridge resonant converter, a first boost converter coupled to the full bridge resonant converter, and a second boost converter coupled to the full bridge resonant converter.
- the full bridge resonant converter may include (i) a first pair of electrical switches electrically coupled to each other at a first electrical connection, and (ii) a second pair of electrical switches electrically coupled to each other at a second electrical connection, and (iii) a resonant tank circuit.
- the first boost converter may include (i) a capacitor, (ii) the first pair of electrical switches, and (iii) a first inductor having a first terminal to receive the input DC waveform and a second terminal electrically coupled to the first connection.
- the second boost converter may include (i) the capacitor, (ii) the second pair of electrical switches, and (iii) a second inductor having a first terminal electrically coupled to the first terminal of the first inductor to receive the input DC waveform and a second terminal electrically coupled to the second electrical connection.
- the capacitor may include (i) a first terminal electrically coupled to a first switch of the first pair of electrical switches and a first switch of the second pair of electrical switches at a third electrical connection and (ii) a second terminal electrically coupled to a second switch of the first pair of electrical switches and a second switch of the second pair of electrical switches at a fourth electrical connection.
- the resonant tank circuit may include a resonant capacitor and a resonant inductor electrically coupled in series.
- the full bridge resonant converter may further include a transformer and the resonant inductor may include a resonant inductance formed from at least one of a leakage inductance and a magnetizing inductance of the transformer.
- the resonant capacitor may resonate with the leakage inductance and energy may be transferred from the capacitor across the transformer during resonance in response to one of (i) the first switch of the first pair of electrical switches and a first switch of the second pair of electrical switches being active or (ii) a second switch of the first pair of electrical switches and a second switch of the second pair of electrical switches being active.
- each of the first boost converter and the second boost converter may be configured to increase a magnitude of the input DC waveform to generate a boosted DC waveform.
- the first pair and second pair of electrical switches of the full bridge resonant converter may be configured to receive the boosted DC waveform and to generate a square waveform.
- the resonant tank circuit may be configured to receive the square waveform and to convert the square waveform to a resonant sinusoidal waveform.
- the inverter may further include an inverter controller electrically coupled to the input converter and configured to control operation of the first pair and second pair of electrical switches.
- the inverter controller may be configured to operate the first pair of electrical switches with a phase shift relative to the second pair of electrical switches for interleaved operation of the first and second boost converters.
- at least one switch of the first pair of switches or the second pair of switches may be controlled by the inverter controller using zero-voltage switching.
- the inverter controller may be configured to control operation of the first pair and second pair of electrical switches using pulse width modulation and duty cycle modifications.
- at least one of the first boost converter and the second boost converter may be configured to operate at a fixed frequency. In such embodiments, the corresponding pair of electrical switches may be controlled via pulse-width modulation duty cycle control.
- the full bridge resonant converter may further include a transformer.
- the inverter may also include a rectifier circuit electrically coupled to a secondary winding of the transformer and to the DC power bus.
- the rectifier circuit may be configured to convert an input AC waveform received from the secondary winding of the transformer to the bus waveform supplied to the DC power bus.
- the DC source may be embodied as a photovoltaic power source.
- an input converter of a power inverter for boosting a direct current (DC) waveform from a DC source to supply a DC bus waveform to a power bus may include a half-bridge inverter circuit, a resonant circuit, a capacitor divider circuit, a transformer, and/or a rectifier circuit.
- the half-bridge inverter circuit may include a first electrical switch electrically coupled to a second electrical switch at a first electrical connection, the half-bridge inverter circuit configured to convert an input DC waveform to an AC waveform.
- the resonant circuit electrically may be coupled to the half-bridge inverter circuit and may include an output electrically coupled to the first electrical connection to supply the input DC waveform to the half-bridge inverter circuit.
- the capacitor divider circuit may be electrically coupled to the inverter circuit to receive the AC waveform from the inverter circuit and generate a divided AC voltage signal.
- the transformer may include a primary winding and a secondary winding.
- the primary winding of the transformer may include a first terminal electrically connected to the first electrical connection and a second terminal electrically connected to the capacitor divider to receive the divided AC voltage signal therefrom.
- the rectifier circuit may be electrically coupled to the secondary winding of the transformer and to the power bus.
- the rectifier circuit may be configured to convert an input AC waveform received from the secondary winding of the transformer to the DC bus waveform supplied to the power bus.
- the capacitor divider circuit may include a first capacitor electrically coupled to a second capacitor at a second electrical connection.
- each of the first capacitor and second capacitor may have a first terminal electrically coupled to the second electrical connection.
- the first electrical switch may include a first terminal electrically coupled to the first electrical connection and a second terminal electrically coupled to a second terminal of the first capacitor.
- the second electrical switch may include a first terminal electrically coupled to the first electrical connection and a second terminal electrically coupled to a second terminal of the second capacitor.
- the second terminal of the transformer is electrically coupled to the second electrical connection.
- at least one of the first electrical switch or the second electrical switch may be configured to be controlled in a zero-voltage switching mode.
- the rectifier circuit may include a plurality of diodes and at least one diode of the plurality of diodes is configured to be controlled by soft switching and with negligible reverse recovery.
- the DC source may be embodied as a photovoltaic power source.
- FIG. 1 is a simplified block diagram of one embodiment of a system for converting DC power to AC power
- FIG. 2 is a simplified block diagram of one embodiment of an AC photovoltaic module of the system of FIG. 1 ;
- FIG. 3 is a simplified block diagram of one embodiment of an inverter of the system of FIG. 1 ;
- FIG. 4 is a simplified block diagram of one embodiment of an input converter of the inverter of FIG. 3 ;
- FIGS. 5-7 are simplified electrical schematics of one embodiment of the input converter of FIG. 4 having an illustrative circuit topology
- FIGS. 8A-8D illustrate simulated waveforms of various circuits of the input converter of FIGS. 5-7 ;
- FIG. 9 illustrates a model waveform of a resonant tank circuit of the input converter of FIGS. 5-7 ;
- FIG. 10 is a simplified block diagram of another embodiment of an input converter of the inverter of FIG. 3 ;
- FIG. 11 is a simplified electrical schematic of one embodiment of the input converter FIG. 10 having an illustrative circuit topology
- FIGS. 12A-12D illustrate operational characteristics of the input converter of FIG. 11 at various stages of operation.
- FIGS. 13A-13C illustrate simulated waveforms of various circuits of the input converter of FIG. 11 .
- references in the specification to “one embodiment”, “an embodiment”, “an example embodiment”, etc., indicate that the embodiment described may include a particular feature, structure, or characteristic, but every embodiment may not necessarily include the particular feature, structure, or characteristic. Moreover, such phrases are not necessarily referring to the same embodiment. Further, when a particular feature, structure, or characteristic is described in connection with an embodiment, it is submitted that it is within the knowledge of one skilled in the art to effect such feature, structure, or characteristic in connection with other embodiments whether or not explicitly described.
- Some embodiments of the disclosure, or portions thereof, may be implemented in hardware, firmware, software, or any combination thereof. Embodiments of the disclosure may also be implemented as instructions stored on a tangible, machine-readable medium, which may be read and executed by one or more processors.
- a machine-readable medium may include any mechanism for storing or transmitting information in a form readable by a machine (e.g., a computing device).
- a machine-readable medium may include read only memory (ROM); random access memory (RAM); magnetic disk storage media; optical storage media; flash memory devices; and others.
- a system 100 for supplying alternating current (hereinafter “AC”) power to an AC grid 102 at a grid frequency includes a direct current (hereinafter “DC”) source 104 and an inverter 106 .
- the DC source 104 may be embodied as any type of DC source configured to generate or produce a DC power, which is supplied to the inverter 106 .
- the DC power may be embodied as a photovoltaic solar cell or array, a fuel cell, a wind turbine configured to generate a DC power (e.g., via a rectifying circuit), a water turbine configured to generate a DC power, or other unipolar power source.
- the inverter 106 is electrically connected to the DC source 104 and configured to convert a DC waveform generated by the DC source 104 to an AC waveform suitable for delivery to the AC grid 102 and, in some embodiments, loads coupled to the AC grid 102 .
- the AC grid 102 may be embodied as, for example, a utility power grid that supplies utility AC power to residential and commercial users.
- the DC source 104 may be embodied as one or more photovoltaic cells.
- the DC source 104 and the inverter 106 may be associated with each other to embody an AC photovoltaic module (ACPV) 200 as illustrated in FIG. 2 .
- the ACPV 200 includes a DC photovoltaic module (DCPV) 202 , which operates as the DC source 104 , electrically coupled to the inverter 106 .
- the DCPV 202 includes one or more photovoltaic cells and is configured to deliver a DC waveform to the inverter 106 in response to receiving an amount of sunlight.
- the DC power delivered by the ACPV 200 is a function of environmental variables, such as, e.g., sunlight intensity, sunlight angle of incidence and temperature.
- the inverter 106 is positioned in a housing of the ACPV 200 .
- the inverter 106 may include its own housing secured to the housing of the ACPV 200 .
- the inverter 106 is separate from the housing, but located near the DCPV 202 .
- the inverter 106 is configured to convert the DC power received from the DCPV 202 to an AC power suitable for delivery to the AC grid 102 at the grid frequency. It should be appreciated that multiple ACPVs 200 may be used to form a solar array with each ACPV 200 having a dedicated inverter 106 .
- the inverter 106 includes an input converter 300 , a power bus 302 , and an output converter 304 .
- the input converter 300 is electrically coupled to the power bus 302 and is electrically couplable to the DC source 104 as shown in FIG. 3 .
- the output converter 304 is electrically coupled to the power bus 302 and electrically couplable to the AC grid 102 .
- the inverter 106 also includes an inverter controller 310 , which controls the operation of the input converter 300 and the output converter 304 .
- the inverter controller 310 is shown as a single controller in the embodiment of FIG. 3 , the inverter controller 310 may be embodied as two separate controllers in some embodiments.
- the inverter 106 may include an input controller to control the operation of the input converter 300 and an output controller, separate from the input controller (e.g., galvanically isolated from the input controller), to control the operation of the output converter 304 .
- the input converter 300 of the inverter 106 is configured for electrically coupling to the DC source 104 to receive a DC waveform therefrom.
- the input converter 300 converts the DC waveform to a bus waveform, which in the illustrative embodiment is embodied as a DC waveform.
- the output converter 304 is configured to be electrically coupled to the AC grid 102 and convert the bus waveform (i.e., either a DC waveform or an AC waveform) to the output AC waveform at the grid frequency for delivery to the AC grid 102 .
- the inverter controller 310 is electrically coupled to the input converter 300 and configured to control the operation of the input converter 300 to convert the input DC waveform from the DC source 104 to the bus waveform (e.g., a DC bus waveform) at the power bus 302 .
- the inverter controller 310 may provide a plurality of switching and/or control signals to various circuits of the input converter 300 .
- the inverter controller 310 controls the operation of the input converter 300 based on a global maximum power point tracking (“MPPT”) method.
- MPPT global maximum power point tracking
- the inverter controller 310 is also electrically coupled to the output converter 304 and configured to control the operation of the output converter 304 to convert the bus waveform to the output AC waveform suitable for delivery to the AC grid 102 .
- the illustrative inverter controller 310 includes a pulse width modulation (“PWM”) controller 312 that utilizes a PWM algorithm to control various switches of the inverter 106 as described in greater detail below. To do so, the PWM controller 312 may provide a plurality of switching and/or control signals to various circuits of the inverter 106 .
- PWM pulse width modulation
- the inverter 106 may include circuits not shown herein for clarity of the description.
- the inverter 106 may include communication circuitry, which may be communicatively coupled to the inverter controller 310 or may be incorporated therein.
- the inverter controller 310 may utilize the communication circuitry to communicate with remote devices, such as remote controllers or servers.
- the communication circuitry may be configured to communicate with remote devices over an AC power line, such as the AC power line interconnects coupled to the output of the output converter 304 , or using other communication technologies and/or protocols.
- the communication circuitry may be embodied as a wireless or wired communication circuit configured to communicate with remote devices utilizing one or more wireless or wired communication technologies and/or protocols such as Wi-FiTM, Zigbee®, ModBus®, WiMAX, Wireless USB, Bluetooth®, TCP/IP, USB, CAN-bus, HomePNATM, and/or other wired or wireless communication technology and/or protocol.
- wireless or wired communication technologies and/or protocols such as Wi-FiTM, Zigbee®, ModBus®, WiMAX, Wireless USB, Bluetooth®, TCP/IP, USB, CAN-bus, HomePNATM, and/or other wired or wireless communication technology and/or protocol.
- the input converter 300 is embodied as a DC-to-DC input converter 350 .
- the illustrative input converter 350 includes two boost converters 400 , 402 , a full bridge LLC resonant converter 404 , and a rectifier 406 .
- Each of the boost converters 400 , 402 is embodied as a DC-to-DC power converter configured to boost or “step up” the voltage (i.e., generate an output voltage greater than its input voltage).
- the boost converters 400 , 402 are electrically coupled to the full bridge LLC resonant converter 404 and configured for electrical coupling to the DC source 104 .
- the boost converter 400 includes an energy storage device (ESD) 410 and pair of electrical switches 420 , 422 .
- the boost converter 402 includes the energy storage device 410 and a pair of switches 424 , 426 .
- ESD energy storage device
- the full bridge LLC resonant converter 404 includes a resonant tank circuit 412 , a transformer 414 , and the switches 420 , 422 , 424 , 426 .
- the full bridge LLC resonant converter 404 share common switches 420 , 422 with the boost converter 400 and common switches 424 , 426 with the boost converter 402 , and is therefore coupled to the boost converters 400 , 402 .
- the full bridge LLC resonant converter 404 is illustratively embodied as a DC-to-AC inverter circuit configured to convert the DC waveform supplied by the DC source 104 to an AC waveform delivered to the rectifier 406 .
- the full bridge LLC resonant converter 404 utilizes the switches 420 , 422 , 424 , 426 , which may be controlled by the inverter controller 310 , to generate a square waveform having a voltage, V ab , as shown in FIGS. 5-7 .
- the full bridge LLC resonant converter 404 converts the square waveform into a resonant sinusoidal current waveform by virtue of the resonant tank circuit 412 .
- the resonant tank circuit 412 may include, or otherwise be configured based on, a component of the transformer 414 (e.g., the leakage inductance and/or magnetizing inductance of the transformer 414 ).
- a component of the transformer 414 e.g., the leakage inductance and/or magnetizing inductance of the transformer 414 .
- the resonant sinusoidal waveform generated by the resonant tank circuit 412 may be embodied as sinusoidal or sinusoidal-like waveforms. That is, a sinusoidal waveform may be embodied as a “pure” sinusoidal waveform or otherwise include some amount of distortion, offset, or other waveform imperfections due to dead time, nonlinearity of the transformer 414 , and/or other circuit parameters and/or operational characteristics.
- the transformer 414 may be embodied as a two or more winding transformer having a primary winding electrically coupled to, or otherwise forming a portion of, the resonant tank circuit 412 of the full bridge LLC resonant converter 404 and a secondary winding coupled to the rectifier 406 .
- the transformer 414 is configured to convert an input AC waveform at the primary winding to a second AC waveform at the secondary winding.
- the first and second AC waveforms may have substantially equal frequency and may or may not have substantially equal voltages.
- the rectifier circuit 408 is electrically coupled to the secondary winding of the transformer 414 and configured to rectify the second AC waveform to a DC waveform supplied to the power bus 302 .
- an input converter 300 having other circuit topology and/or additional or fewer modules may be used in other embodiments.
- the illustrative input converter 350 is electrically coupled to the DC source 104 , which is embodied as a photovoltaic cell, at electrical connections 550 , 552 .
- a filter capacitor 500 and inductors 502 , 504 are electrically coupled to the DC source 104 at the electrical connection 550 .
- the energy storage device 410 is illustratively embodied as a capacitor, and the capacitors 410 , 500 and switches 422 , 426 (i.e., switches of a bridge circuit formed by the plurality of switches 420 , 422 , 424 , 426 ) are also electrically coupled to the DC source 104 at the electrical connection 552 .
- the capacitor 410 is further electrically coupled to the switches 420 , 424 at an electrical connection 554 .
- each of the switches 420 , 422 , 424 , 426 is illustrated as MOSFET devices, other types of switches may be used in other embodiments.
- the inductor 502 is electrically coupled to the switches 420 , 422 at an electrical connection 556
- the inductor 504 is electrically coupled to the switches 424 , 426 at an electrical connection 558
- each of the switches 420 , 422 , 424 , 426 is configured to receive a corresponding control signal from the inverter controller 310 to control operation of the inverter 106 .
- the control circuit may use PWM to control the switches 420 , 422 , 424 , 426 at a relatively high switching frequency (e.g., at a frequency that is substantially higher than the AC grid frequency).
- a resonant capacitor 506 is electrically coupled in series between the electrical connection 556 and a resonant inductance 508 .
- the resonant inductance 508 may be embodied as, or otherwise include, a physical inductor and/or represent the leakage inductance and/or magnetizing inductance of the transformer 414 , an inductance associated with one or more discrete inductors, and/or the inductance of a circuit path (e.g., circuit board traces).
- the illustrative transformer 414 includes a primary winding 510 electrically coupled to the resonant inductance 508 and the electrical connection 558 and a secondary winding 512 electrically coupled to the rectifier circuit 408 (see FIG. 7 ).
- the transformer 414 provides galvanic isolation between the primary side converter circuitry (including the DC source 104 ) and the secondary side circuitry (including the power bus 302 ).
- the turns ratio of the transformer 414 may also provide voltage and current transformation between the first AC waveform at the primary winding 510 and the second AC waveform at the secondary winding 512 .
- the rectifier circuit 408 is embodied as a full-bridge rectifier formed from a plurality of diodes 514 , 516 , 518 , 520 and also includes a bus capacitor 522 , or other energy storage device, for filtering the DC bus waveform.
- a bus capacitor 522 or other energy storage device, for filtering the DC bus waveform.
- other circuit topologies may be used in the rectifier circuit 408 .
- the boost converter 400 includes the capacitor 410 , the inductor 502 , and the switches 420 , 422 and the boost converter 402 includes the capacitor 410 , the inductor 504 , and the switches 424 , 426 as shown in FIG. 6 via separate dashed boundary lines.
- the full bridge LLC resonant converter 404 includes the resonant tank circuit 412 (i.e., the resonant capacitor 506 and the resonant inductance 508 ), the transformer 414 , and the bridge circuit formed by the switches 420 , 422 , 424 , 426 .
- the boost converters 400 , 402 collectively form an interleaved boost converter.
- the switches 420 , 422 and the switches 424 , 426 are controlled by the inverter controller 310 to operate with a phase shift relative to one another, which permits the boost converters 400 , 402 to operate in an interleaved manner.
- the pair of switches 420 , 422 and the pair of switches 424 , 426 operate with a 180 degree phase shift relative to one another.
- the illustrative boost converters 400 , 402 have PWM-based duty cycle control rather than frequency-based control common to most resonant converters.
- the inverter controller 310 may operate the boost converters 400 , 402 at a fixed frequency.
- the inverter controller 310 may control the boost converters 400 , 402 via PWM at a variable frequency for various design considerations other than power control (e.g., to optimize/improve efficiency and/or mitigate electromagnetic interference). It should be appreciated, however, that in such embodiments the voltage and/or power control of the boost converters 400 , 402 is accomplished via duty cycle control, not by the variation of the frequency of the boost converters 400 , 402 .
- the boost converters 400 , 402 “feed” voltage across the capacitor 410 , which in turn feeds the full bridge LLC resonant converter 404 .
- the capacitor 410 regulates the voltage across the bridge consisting of the switches 420 , 422 , 424 , 426 to maintain a relatively stable DC voltage without voltage transients, which can damage the switches 420 , 422 , 424 , 426 .
- the resonant capacitor 506 resonates with the resonant inductance 508 and energy is transferred from the capacitor 410 to the secondary side of the transformer 414 during the resonation.
- the full bridge LLC resonant converter 404 outputs a “smooth” sinusoidal wave rather than a square wave, which eliminates the need for an active voltage clamp and permits “soft” switching. That is, the switches 420 , 422 , 424 , 426 may be controlled using zero-voltage switching or conditional zero-voltage switching (i.e., operation in a critical conduction mode) in which there is no or otherwise minimal reverse recovery for the switches 420 , 422 , 424 , 426 . In other words, the diodes 514 , 516 , 518 , 520 turn of “softly” so that the corresponding reverse recovery effects from such switching are negligible or otherwise less severe than would be present in response to hard switching.
- the diodes 514 , 516 , 518 , 520 may be embodied as fast recovery diodes (e.g., P-i-N diodes and other conventional diodes) rather than as Schottky diodes (e.g., silicon carbide (SiC) diodes) and other diodes designed to have negligible reverse recovery effects.
- each of the diodes 514 , 616 , 518 , 520 may be embodied as any suitable diode depending on the particular implementation.
- the high-voltage side diodes 514 , 518 turn off naturally (i.e., the turn-off is “soft”).
- the low-voltage side switches 422 , 426 turn off their channels and can utilize zero-voltage switching.
- the inductor current flows through the body diode of the high-side switches 420 , 424 .
- the switches 422 , 426 utilize zero-voltage switching during turn-on In order for the switches 420 , 424 to avoid turning off their corresponding body diodes (i.e., to avoid reverse recovery), critical conduction mode is necessary for the inductors 502 , 504 .
- An illustrative condition for critical conduction mode is that
- V i is the input voltage
- D 2 is the duty cycle of the corresponding switch
- V bus is the voltage across the power bus 302
- f is the frequency
- L is the inductance of the corresponding inductor 502 , 504
- i dc is the current supplied to the power bus 302 .
- FIGS. 8A-8D simulated waveforms illustrating various operational characteristics of the input converter 350 are shown.
- FIG. 8A illustrates a voltage 800 (i.e., a drain to source voltage) across the switch 420 and a current 802 flowing through the switch 420 over time.
- the switch 420 engages in zero-voltage switching. That is, the switch 420 is turned on when the voltage 800 across the switch 420 is zero or substantially near zero.
- FIG. 8B illustrates a voltage 810 across the switch 422 , a current 812 flowing through the switch 422 , and an input current 814 of the corresponding inductor 502 over time.
- FIG. 8C illustrates a current 820 flowing through the output diode 514 and a current 822 flowing through the output diode 516 .
- the current 820 , 822 waveforms through the diodes 514 , 516 are approximately half-sinusoidal waves.
- the current 820 , 822 of the corresponding diode 514 , 516 reaches zero such that the diode 514 , 516 can shut itself off rather than being forcibly shut off when not conducting zero current.
- FIG. 8D illustrates waveforms of the resonant tank circuit 412 .
- FIG. 8D illustrates a voltage 830 (shown as V ab in FIGS. 5-7 ) generated by the bridge formed from the switches 420 , 422 , 424 , 426 , a voltage 832 across the resonant capacitor 506 , and a resonant current 834 (e.g., the current flowing through the resonant inductance 508 ).
- the voltage 830 is a tri-level square wave, which has a brief period 836 of zero voltage that corresponds with the dead time in which all of the switches 420 , 422 , 424 , 426 are turned off.
- the inductor current 834 (i.e., the resonant current) is embodied as a half-sinusoidal wave for a period 838 , a period 840 of zero current, a negative half-sinusoidal wave for a period 842 , and another period 844 of zero current.
- each positive and negative voltage-level period may be determined according to
- t active ⁇ ( 1 - D 2 ) ⁇ T sw when ⁇ ⁇ D 2 ⁇ 0.5 D 2 ⁇ T sw when ⁇ ⁇ D 2 ⁇ 0.5 .
- half of the LC resonant period should be less than t active .
- the resonant period should satisfy the condition, 0.5t r ⁇ t active .
- the resonant current 834 drops to zero prior to the step change of the input voltage 830 for a dead time 900 .
- the input converter 300 is embodied as a DC-to-DC input converter 352 .
- the illustrative input converter 352 includes a resonant circuit 1000 , an inverter circuit 1002 , a capacitor divider 1004 , a transformer 1006 , and a rectifier circuit 1008 .
- the resonant circuit 1000 is illustratively embodied as an LC tank circuit and is electrically coupled to the inverter circuit 1002 and configured for electrical coupling to the DC source 104 .
- the resonant circuit 1000 and the DC source 104 when coupled to the DC source 104 , function similar to, and may be treated as, an “ideal” current source for purposes of analysis.
- the inverter circuit 1002 is embodied as a DC-to-AC inverter circuit configured to convert the DC waveform supplied by the DC source 104 to an AC waveform delivered to the capacitor divider 1004 , which generates a divided voltage that is supplied to a primary winding of the transformer 1006 .
- the transformer 1006 may be embodied as a two or more winding transformer having a primary winding electrically coupled to the capacitor divider 1004 and the inverter circuit 1002 .
- the transformer 1006 is configured to convert the first AC waveform supplied by the capacitor divider 1004 at the primary winding to a second AC waveform at the secondary winding.
- the first and second AC waveforms may have substantially equal frequency and may or may not have substantially equal voltages.
- the rectifier circuit 1008 is electrically coupled to the secondary winding of the transformer 1006 and configured to rectify the second AC waveform to a DC waveform supplied to the power bus 302 .
- FIG. 11 An illustrative embodiment of the input converter 352 is illustrated in FIG. 11 .
- the input converter 352 is electrically coupled to the DC source 104 , embodied as a photovoltaic cell, via the resonant circuit 1000 .
- the resonant circuit 1000 is embodied as an LC circuit including an input capacitor 1120 and an input inductor 1122 .
- the inverter circuit 1002 is illustratively embodied as a half-bridge circuit formed by a plurality of switches 1124 , 1126 . In other embodiments, the inverter circuit 1002 may include a different number of switches and/or be otherwise embodied as a full-bridge circuit.
- each of the switches 1124 , 1126 is configured to receive a corresponding control signal from the inverter controller 310 to control operation of the inverter 106 .
- the PWM controller 312 of the inverter controller 310 may use PWM to control the switches 1124 , 1126 at a relatively high switching frequency (e.g., at a frequency that is substantially higher than the AC grid frequency).
- the inverter circuit 1002 converts the DC waveform from the DC source 104 or, more particularly, from the resonant circuit 1000 to a first AC waveform based on the control signals received from the inverter controller 310 as discussed above.
- each of the switches 1124 , 1126 is illustrated as MOSFET devices, other types of switches may be used in other embodiments.
- the capacitor divider 1004 is electrically coupled to each of the transformer 1006 and the inverter circuit 1002 .
- the capacitor divider 1004 includes capacitors 1128 , 1130 and is configured to generate a divided voltage.
- the transformer 1006 includes a primary winding 1132 electrically coupled to the capacitor divider 1004 and the inverter circuit 1002 and a secondary winding 1134 electrically coupled to the rectifier circuit 1008 .
- the transformer 1006 includes a leakage inductance, which is represented in FIG. 11 by a resonant inductance 1136 electrically coupled to the primary winding 1132 of the transformer 1006 .
- the resonant inductance 1136 may be embodied as, or otherwise include, as a physical inductor and/or represent the leakage inductance and/or magnetizing inductance of the transformer 1006 , an inductance associated with one or more discrete inductors, and/or the inductance of a circuit path (e.g., circuit board traces).
- the transformer 1006 provides galvanic isolation between the primary side converter circuitry (including DC source 104 ) and the secondary side circuitry (including power bus 302 ).
- the turns ratio of the transformer 1006 may also provide voltage and current transformation between the first AC waveform at the primary winding 1132 and the second AC waveform at the secondary winding 1134 .
- the input converter 352 is electrically coupled to the DC source 104 at electrical connections 1150 , 1152 . That is, the input capacitor 1120 and the input inductor 1122 are electrically coupled to the DC source 104 at the electrical connection 1150 .
- the capacitors 1120 , 1130 and the switch 1126 are electrically coupled to the DC source 104 at the electrical connection 1152 .
- the switches 1124 , 1126 are electrically coupled to the input inductor 1122 at an electrical connection 1154
- the capacitors 1128 , 1130 are electrically coupled to one another at an electrical connection 1156 .
- the resonant inductance 1136 is shown as being electrically coupled in series between the electrical connection 1154 and the primary winding 1132 of the transformer 1006 .
- the primary winding 1132 is further coupled to the capacitors 1128 , 1130 at the electrical connection 1156 .
- the rectifier circuit 1008 is electrically coupled to the secondary winding 1134 of the transformer 1006 and configured to convert the second AC waveform supplied by the transformer 1006 to a DC bus waveform supplied to the power bus 302 .
- the rectifier circuit 1008 is embodied as a half-bridge rectifier formed from a plurality of diodes 1138 , 1140 and includes a capacitor divider of capacitors 1142 , 1144 . Again, in other embodiments, other circuit topologies may be used in the rectifier circuit 1008 .
- the rectifier circuit 1008 may also include an energy storage device, such as a bus capacitor 1146 , for filtering the DC bus waveform.
- the secondary winding 1034 of the transformer 1006 is electrically coupled to the diodes 1138 , 1040 at an electrical connection 1158 and electrically coupled to the capacitors 1142 , 1144 at an electrical connection 1160 .
- the bus capacitor 1146 is electrically coupled to the diode 1138 and the capacitor 1142 at an electrical connection 1162 and is electrically coupled to the diode 1140 and the capacitor 1144 at an electrical connection 1164 .
- the input converter 352 may operate according to similar principles as the input converter 350 .
- the input converter 352 is embodied as the half-bridge topological counterpart to the converter 350 (i.e., a full-bridge boost resonant converter). Similar to the input converter 350 , the resonant operation of the input converter 352 eliminates the need for active clamping, and the output power is regulated by varying the duty cycle and maintaining a constant or near-constant frequency.
- FIGS. 12A-12D Electrical schematics of the input converter 352 illustrating a flow 1200 of current through the input converter 352 at various stages of operation are shown in FIGS. 12A-12D .
- the input inductor 1122 is carrying a positive, nearly-constant current with low ripple.
- FIG. 12A before the switch 1124 turns on, current flows through the body diode of the switch 1124 and through the transformer 1006 .
- a parasitic capacitance is present across the switch 1124 , which prevents the voltage of the switch 1124 from instantly rising or falling (e.g., to zero); instead, there is some delay in such voltage transitions.
- the parasitic capacitance across the switch 1124 is discharged by the current flowing through the body diode of the switch 1124 .
- the switch 1124 is turned on by virtue of zero voltage switching.
- the capacitor 1128 resonates with the resonant inductance 1136 of the transformer 1006 and with the capacitor 1142 .
- the output diode 1138 prevents the continued resonation in the reverse direction.
- resonant frequency, f 1 at this stage may be expressed according to:
- f 1 1 2 ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ L 4 ⁇ n 2 ⁇ C 3 ⁇ ( C 1 + C 2 ) C 1 + C 2 + n 2 + C 3
- n is the turns ratio of the secondary side to the primary side of the transformer 1006
- L 4 is the resonant inductance 1136
- C 1 is the capacitance of the capacitor 1128
- C 2 is the capacitance of the capacitor 1130
- C 3 is the capacitance of the capacitor 1138 .
- the turns ratio, n may be expressed as
- n sec is the number of turns of the secondary side of the transformer 1006
- n prim is the number of turns of the primary side of the transformer 1006
- V o is the output voltage of the input converter 352
- V c the voltage across the capacitors 1128 , 1130 . It should further be appreciated that the relationship between the input voltage, the duty cycle of the switch 1126 , and the voltage across the capacitors 1128 , 1130 may be expressed as
- V o V c 1 1 - D ,
- D is the duty cycle
- the switch 1124 is turned on, the current flow through the non-body diode portion (e.g., the MOSFET portion) of the switch 1124 , rather than through the body diode of the switch 1124 , and begins supplying energy to the capacitors 1128 , 1130 . It should be appreciated that there is no operational current flowing through the transformer 1006 and both of the diodes 1138 , 1140 turn off at this point.
- the switch 1124 is then turned back off. As shown in FIG. 12C , the switch 1126 is turned on and the current of the input inductor 1122 flow through the switch 1126 .
- the resonant frequency, f 2 at this stage may be expressed according to:
- f 1 1 2 ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ L 4 ⁇ n 2 ⁇ C 4 ⁇ C 2 C 2 + n 2 + C 4
- C 4 is the capacitance of the capacitor 1144 and the other variables are similar to those described above.
- FIG. 12D the resonant half-cycle, which may be similar to the current 834 of FIGS. 8D and 9 , has completed and the transformer 1006 therefore stops conducting. That is, the transformer 1006 current falls to zero, the switch 1126 is conducting (i.e., the non-body diode portion), and neither of the diodes 1138 , 1140 are conducting. The switch 1126 then turns back off. For a brief period thereafter (i.e., a dead time), both of the switches 1124 , 1126 are off, following which the input converter 352 resumes operation similar to that described above in reference to FIG. 12A . In other words, in the illustrative embodiment, FIGS. 12A-12D embody a complete cycle of operation of the input converter 352 .
- FIGS. 13A-13C simulated waveforms illustrating the operation of various circuits of the input converter 352 of FIG. 11 .
- FIG. 13A illustrates a current 1300 flowing through the diode 1138 , a current 1302 flowing through the diode 1140 , a voltage 1304 across the diode 1138 , a voltage 1306 across the diode 1140 , and a voltage 1308 across the capacitor 1128 over time.
- FIG. 13A illustrates a current 1300 flowing through the diode 1138 , a current 1302 flowing through the diode 1140 , a voltage 1304 across the diode 1138 , a voltage 1306 across the diode 1140 , and a voltage 1308 across the capacitor 1128 over time.
- FIG. 13A illustrates a current 1300 flowing through the diode 1138 , a current 1302 flowing through the diode 1140 , a voltage 1304 across the diode 1138 , a voltage 1306 across the diode
- FIG. 13B illustrates a current 1310 flowing through the switch 1124 , a current 1312 flowing through the switch 1126 , a current 1314 flowing through the input inductor 1122 , a current 1316 flowing through the capacitor 1128 , and a current 1318 flowing through the capacitor 1130 over time.
- FIG. 13C illustrates a voltage 1320 across the switch 1124 and a voltage 1322 across the switch 1126 over time.
- FIG. 13C also illustrates a driving signal 1324 of the switch 1124 and a driving signal 1326 of the switch 1126 over time.
- the switches 1124 , 1126 engage in zero-voltage switching such that the corresponding switch 1124 , 1126 is turned on when the corresponding voltage 1320 , 1322 is zero.
- the input converter 352 may exhibit characteristics that are advantageous to a DC-to-DC boost converter in some implementations and may be similar to the benefits of the topology of the input converter 350 .
- the resonant operation of the input converter 352 may generate a relatively sinusoidal waveform across the transformer 1006 , eliminate the need for an active clamping circuit, and/or permit soft switching of the output diodes 1138 , 1140 (i.e., the diodes 1138 , 1140 require little or no reverse recovery).
- the output power may be regulated by varying the duty cycle while maintaining a constant or near-constant frequency.
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- The present application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61/794,480, entitled “CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES” by Yan Zhou et al., which was filed on Mar. 15, 2013, the entirety of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
- The present disclosure relates, generally, to power converters for converting direct current (DC) power to alternating current (AC) power and, more particularly, to boost converter topologies for stepping up DC power.
- Power inverters convert a DC power to an AC power. For example, some power inverters are configured to convert the DC power to an AC power suitable for supplying energy to an AC grid and, in some cases, an AC load that may or may not be coupled to the AC grid. One particular application for such power inverters is the conversion of DC power generated by an alternative energy source, such as photovoltaic cells (“PV cells” or “solar cells”), fuel cells, DC wind turbine, DC water turbine, and other DC power sources, to a single-phase AC power for delivery to the AC grid at the grid frequency. The amount of power that can be delivered by certain alternative energy sources, such as PV cells, may vary in magnitude over time due to temporal variations in operating conditions. For example, the output of a typical PV cell will vary as a function of variations in sunlight intensity, angle of incidence of sunlight, ambient temperature and other factors.
- Such power inverters typically include a DC-DC converter to step up the voltage from a relatively low DC voltage (e.g., 30 V) to a power bus voltage of the inverter (e.g., 400 V). Depending on the particular implementation, the converter may be designed with any one of a number of different topologies. Common topologies include, for example, an isolated boost converter design, a “flyback” converter design, and a “series-LLC” converter design, each of which have distinct operational characteristics and/or components. In particular, the isolated boost converter is a “hard-switched” converter (i.e., the switches and diodes simultaneously experience a high current and high voltage stress during a switching transition) and often includes an active clamp circuit across a switch bridge to absorb mismatched current and limit the voltage. The flyback design is a generally simple converter topology having relatively simple control and gate drive requirements but has significant switch stresses and is an inherently hard-switched design. The series-LLC converter has an inherently soft-switched design and low voltage stresses and typically does not require an active clamp circuit. Unlike isolated boost converters, which are typically current-fed, series-LLC converters are fundamentally voltage-fed; because the input voltage generated by the PV cells may vary significantly over time, series-LLC converters must account for such variation. Accordingly, voltage-fed topologies tend to “step down” the voltage prior to boosting voltage (e.g., via a turns ratio of the transformer), which can result in inefficiency for the converter.
- In a typical photovoltaic power system, an inverter may be associated with one or more solar cell panels. For example, some systems include strings of solar cell panels that deliver a relatively high, combined voltage (e.g., nominal 450 V) to a single, large inverter. Alternatively, in other systems such as a distributed photovoltaic power system, an inverter may be associated with each solar cell panel. In such systems, the solar cell panels are typically small, relatively low voltage (e.g., 25 V). The inverter may be placed in close proximity to the associated solar cell panel to increase the conversion efficiency of the overall system.
- According to one aspect, an inverter for converting an input direct current (DC) waveform from a DC source to an output alternating current (AC) waveform for delivery to an AC grid may include an input converter electrically coupled to a DC power bus. The input converter may be configured to convert the input DC waveform to a bus waveform supplied to the DC power bus. Additionally, the input converter may include a full bridge resonant converter, a first boost converter coupled to the full bridge resonant converter, and a second boost converter coupled to the full bridge resonant converter. The full bridge resonant converter may include (i) a first pair of electrical switches electrically coupled to each other at a first electrical connection, and (ii) a second pair of electrical switches electrically coupled to each other at a second electrical connection, and (iii) a resonant tank circuit. The first boost converter may include (i) a capacitor, (ii) the first pair of electrical switches, and (iii) a first inductor having a first terminal to receive the input DC waveform and a second terminal electrically coupled to the first connection. The second boost converter may include (i) the capacitor, (ii) the second pair of electrical switches, and (iii) a second inductor having a first terminal electrically coupled to the first terminal of the first inductor to receive the input DC waveform and a second terminal electrically coupled to the second electrical connection.
- In some embodiments, the capacitor may include (i) a first terminal electrically coupled to a first switch of the first pair of electrical switches and a first switch of the second pair of electrical switches at a third electrical connection and (ii) a second terminal electrically coupled to a second switch of the first pair of electrical switches and a second switch of the second pair of electrical switches at a fourth electrical connection. Additionally, in some embodiments, the resonant tank circuit may include a resonant capacitor and a resonant inductor electrically coupled in series. In such embodiments, the full bridge resonant converter may further include a transformer and the resonant inductor may include a resonant inductance formed from at least one of a leakage inductance and a magnetizing inductance of the transformer. Additionally or alternatively, in such embodiments, the resonant capacitor may resonate with the leakage inductance and energy may be transferred from the capacitor across the transformer during resonance in response to one of (i) the first switch of the first pair of electrical switches and a first switch of the second pair of electrical switches being active or (ii) a second switch of the first pair of electrical switches and a second switch of the second pair of electrical switches being active.
- In some embodiments, each of the first boost converter and the second boost converter may be configured to increase a magnitude of the input DC waveform to generate a boosted DC waveform. Additionally, the first pair and second pair of electrical switches of the full bridge resonant converter may be configured to receive the boosted DC waveform and to generate a square waveform. The resonant tank circuit may be configured to receive the square waveform and to convert the square waveform to a resonant sinusoidal waveform.
- Additionally, in some embodiments, the inverter may further include an inverter controller electrically coupled to the input converter and configured to control operation of the first pair and second pair of electrical switches. In such embodiments, the inverter controller may be configured to operate the first pair of electrical switches with a phase shift relative to the second pair of electrical switches for interleaved operation of the first and second boost converters. Additionally, in some embodiments, at least one switch of the first pair of switches or the second pair of switches may be controlled by the inverter controller using zero-voltage switching. Further, in some embodiments, the inverter controller may be configured to control operation of the first pair and second pair of electrical switches using pulse width modulation and duty cycle modifications. Additionally, in some embodiments, at least one of the first boost converter and the second boost converter may be configured to operate at a fixed frequency. In such embodiments, the corresponding pair of electrical switches may be controlled via pulse-width modulation duty cycle control.
- In some embodiments, the full bridge resonant converter may further include a transformer. In such embodiments, the inverter may also include a rectifier circuit electrically coupled to a secondary winding of the transformer and to the DC power bus. The rectifier circuit may be configured to convert an input AC waveform received from the secondary winding of the transformer to the bus waveform supplied to the DC power bus. Additionally, in some embodiments, the DC source may be embodied as a photovoltaic power source.
- According to another aspect, an input converter of a power inverter for boosting a direct current (DC) waveform from a DC source to supply a DC bus waveform to a power bus may include a half-bridge inverter circuit, a resonant circuit, a capacitor divider circuit, a transformer, and/or a rectifier circuit. The half-bridge inverter circuit may include a first electrical switch electrically coupled to a second electrical switch at a first electrical connection, the half-bridge inverter circuit configured to convert an input DC waveform to an AC waveform. The resonant circuit electrically may be coupled to the half-bridge inverter circuit and may include an output electrically coupled to the first electrical connection to supply the input DC waveform to the half-bridge inverter circuit. The capacitor divider circuit may be electrically coupled to the inverter circuit to receive the AC waveform from the inverter circuit and generate a divided AC voltage signal. The transformer may include a primary winding and a secondary winding. The primary winding of the transformer may include a first terminal electrically connected to the first electrical connection and a second terminal electrically connected to the capacitor divider to receive the divided AC voltage signal therefrom. The rectifier circuit may be electrically coupled to the secondary winding of the transformer and to the power bus. The rectifier circuit may be configured to convert an input AC waveform received from the secondary winding of the transformer to the DC bus waveform supplied to the power bus.
- In some embodiments, the capacitor divider circuit may include a first capacitor electrically coupled to a second capacitor at a second electrical connection. In such embodiments, each of the first capacitor and second capacitor may have a first terminal electrically coupled to the second electrical connection. Additionally, the first electrical switch may include a first terminal electrically coupled to the first electrical connection and a second terminal electrically coupled to a second terminal of the first capacitor. Similarly, the second electrical switch may include a first terminal electrically coupled to the first electrical connection and a second terminal electrically coupled to a second terminal of the second capacitor.
- Additionally, in some embodiments, the second terminal of the transformer is electrically coupled to the second electrical connection. In some embodiments, at least one of the first electrical switch or the second electrical switch may be configured to be controlled in a zero-voltage switching mode. Additionally, in some embodiments, the rectifier circuit may include a plurality of diodes and at least one diode of the plurality of diodes is configured to be controlled by soft switching and with negligible reverse recovery. Further, in some embodiments, the DC source may be embodied as a photovoltaic power source.
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FIG. 1 is a simplified block diagram of one embodiment of a system for converting DC power to AC power; -
FIG. 2 is a simplified block diagram of one embodiment of an AC photovoltaic module of the system ofFIG. 1 ; -
FIG. 3 is a simplified block diagram of one embodiment of an inverter of the system ofFIG. 1 ; -
FIG. 4 is a simplified block diagram of one embodiment of an input converter of the inverter ofFIG. 3 ; -
FIGS. 5-7 are simplified electrical schematics of one embodiment of the input converter ofFIG. 4 having an illustrative circuit topology; -
FIGS. 8A-8D illustrate simulated waveforms of various circuits of the input converter ofFIGS. 5-7 ; -
FIG. 9 illustrates a model waveform of a resonant tank circuit of the input converter ofFIGS. 5-7 ; -
FIG. 10 is a simplified block diagram of another embodiment of an input converter of the inverter ofFIG. 3 ; -
FIG. 11 is a simplified electrical schematic of one embodiment of the input converterFIG. 10 having an illustrative circuit topology; -
FIGS. 12A-12D illustrate operational characteristics of the input converter ofFIG. 11 at various stages of operation; and -
FIGS. 13A-13C illustrate simulated waveforms of various circuits of the input converter ofFIG. 11 . - While the concepts of the present disclosure are susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific exemplary embodiments thereof have been shown by way of example in the drawings and will herein be described in detail. It should be understood, however, that there is no intent to limit the concepts of the present disclosure to the particular forms disclosed, but on the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
- References in the specification to “one embodiment”, “an embodiment”, “an example embodiment”, etc., indicate that the embodiment described may include a particular feature, structure, or characteristic, but every embodiment may not necessarily include the particular feature, structure, or characteristic. Moreover, such phrases are not necessarily referring to the same embodiment. Further, when a particular feature, structure, or characteristic is described in connection with an embodiment, it is submitted that it is within the knowledge of one skilled in the art to effect such feature, structure, or characteristic in connection with other embodiments whether or not explicitly described.
- Some embodiments of the disclosure, or portions thereof, may be implemented in hardware, firmware, software, or any combination thereof. Embodiments of the disclosure may also be implemented as instructions stored on a tangible, machine-readable medium, which may be read and executed by one or more processors. A machine-readable medium may include any mechanism for storing or transmitting information in a form readable by a machine (e.g., a computing device). For example, a machine-readable medium may include read only memory (ROM); random access memory (RAM); magnetic disk storage media; optical storage media; flash memory devices; and others.
- Referring to
FIG. 1 , asystem 100 for supplying alternating current (hereinafter “AC”) power to anAC grid 102 at a grid frequency includes a direct current (hereinafter “DC”)source 104 and aninverter 106. TheDC source 104 may be embodied as any type of DC source configured to generate or produce a DC power, which is supplied to theinverter 106. For example, the DC power may be embodied as a photovoltaic solar cell or array, a fuel cell, a wind turbine configured to generate a DC power (e.g., via a rectifying circuit), a water turbine configured to generate a DC power, or other unipolar power source. - The
inverter 106 is electrically connected to theDC source 104 and configured to convert a DC waveform generated by theDC source 104 to an AC waveform suitable for delivery to theAC grid 102 and, in some embodiments, loads coupled to theAC grid 102. TheAC grid 102 may be embodied as, for example, a utility power grid that supplies utility AC power to residential and commercial users. Such utility power grids may be characterized as having an essentially sinusoidal bipolar voltage at a fixed grid frequency (e.g., f=ω/2π=50 Hz or 60 Hz). - As discussed above, in some embodiments, the
DC source 104 may be embodied as one or more photovoltaic cells. In such embodiments, theDC source 104 and theinverter 106 may be associated with each other to embody an AC photovoltaic module (ACPV) 200 as illustrated inFIG. 2 . TheACPV 200 includes a DC photovoltaic module (DCPV) 202, which operates as theDC source 104, electrically coupled to theinverter 106. TheDCPV 202 includes one or more photovoltaic cells and is configured to deliver a DC waveform to theinverter 106 in response to receiving an amount of sunlight. The DC power delivered by theACPV 200 is a function of environmental variables, such as, e.g., sunlight intensity, sunlight angle of incidence and temperature. In some embodiments, theinverter 106 is positioned in a housing of theACPV 200. Alternatively, theinverter 106 may include its own housing secured to the housing of theACPV 200. Additionally, in some embodiments, theinverter 106 is separate from the housing, but located near theDCPV 202. As discussed above, theinverter 106 is configured to convert the DC power received from theDCPV 202 to an AC power suitable for delivery to theAC grid 102 at the grid frequency. It should be appreciated thatmultiple ACPVs 200 may be used to form a solar array with each ACPV 200 having adedicated inverter 106. - Referring now to
FIG. 3 , in one embodiment, theinverter 106 includes aninput converter 300, apower bus 302, and anoutput converter 304. Theinput converter 300 is electrically coupled to thepower bus 302 and is electrically couplable to theDC source 104 as shown inFIG. 3 . Similarly, theoutput converter 304 is electrically coupled to thepower bus 302 and electrically couplable to theAC grid 102. Theinverter 106 also includes aninverter controller 310, which controls the operation of theinput converter 300 and theoutput converter 304. Although theinverter controller 310 is shown as a single controller in the embodiment ofFIG. 3 , theinverter controller 310 may be embodied as two separate controllers in some embodiments. That is, in some embodiments, theinverter 106 may include an input controller to control the operation of theinput converter 300 and an output controller, separate from the input controller (e.g., galvanically isolated from the input controller), to control the operation of theoutput converter 304. - In use, the
input converter 300 of theinverter 106 is configured for electrically coupling to theDC source 104 to receive a DC waveform therefrom. Theinput converter 300 converts the DC waveform to a bus waveform, which in the illustrative embodiment is embodied as a DC waveform. Similarly, theoutput converter 304 is configured to be electrically coupled to theAC grid 102 and convert the bus waveform (i.e., either a DC waveform or an AC waveform) to the output AC waveform at the grid frequency for delivery to theAC grid 102. - As discussed above, the
inverter controller 310 is electrically coupled to theinput converter 300 and configured to control the operation of theinput converter 300 to convert the input DC waveform from theDC source 104 to the bus waveform (e.g., a DC bus waveform) at thepower bus 302. To do so, theinverter controller 310 may provide a plurality of switching and/or control signals to various circuits of theinput converter 300. For example, in some embodiments, theinverter controller 310 controls the operation of theinput converter 300 based on a global maximum power point tracking (“MPPT”) method. Illustratively, theinverter controller 310 is also electrically coupled to theoutput converter 304 and configured to control the operation of theoutput converter 304 to convert the bus waveform to the output AC waveform suitable for delivery to theAC grid 102. As shown inFIG. 3 , theillustrative inverter controller 310 includes a pulse width modulation (“PWM”)controller 312 that utilizes a PWM algorithm to control various switches of theinverter 106 as described in greater detail below. To do so, thePWM controller 312 may provide a plurality of switching and/or control signals to various circuits of theinverter 106. - Additionally, in some embodiments, the
inverter 106 may include circuits not shown herein for clarity of the description. For example, theinverter 106 may include communication circuitry, which may be communicatively coupled to theinverter controller 310 or may be incorporated therein. In such embodiments, theinverter controller 310 may utilize the communication circuitry to communicate with remote devices, such as remote controllers or servers. For example, depending on the particular embodiment, the communication circuitry may be configured to communicate with remote devices over an AC power line, such as the AC power line interconnects coupled to the output of theoutput converter 304, or using other communication technologies and/or protocols. For example, in some embodiments, the communication circuitry may be embodied as a wireless or wired communication circuit configured to communicate with remote devices utilizing one or more wireless or wired communication technologies and/or protocols such as Wi-Fi™, Zigbee®, ModBus®, WiMAX, Wireless USB, Bluetooth®, TCP/IP, USB, CAN-bus, HomePNA™, and/or other wired or wireless communication technology and/or protocol. - Referring now to
FIG. 4 , in an illustrative embodiment, theinput converter 300 is embodied as a DC-to-DC input converter 350. Theillustrative input converter 350 includes twoboost converters resonant converter 404, and arectifier 406. Each of theboost converters boost converters resonant converter 404 and configured for electrical coupling to theDC source 104. - As shown in
FIG. 4 , theboost converter 400 includes an energy storage device (ESD) 410 and pair ofelectrical switches boost converter 402 includes theenergy storage device 410 and a pair ofswitches boost converters energy storage device 410, and they are therefore also coupled to one another. Additionally, as shown in the illustrative embodiment, the full bridge LLCresonant converter 404 includes aresonant tank circuit 412, atransformer 414, and theswitches resonant converter 404 sharecommon switches boost converter 400 andcommon switches boost converter 402, and is therefore coupled to theboost converters - The full bridge LLC
resonant converter 404 is illustratively embodied as a DC-to-AC inverter circuit configured to convert the DC waveform supplied by theDC source 104 to an AC waveform delivered to therectifier 406. In particular, the full bridge LLCresonant converter 404 utilizes theswitches inverter controller 310, to generate a square waveform having a voltage, Vab, as shown inFIGS. 5-7 . The full bridge LLCresonant converter 404 converts the square waveform into a resonant sinusoidal current waveform by virtue of theresonant tank circuit 412. As discussed below, theresonant tank circuit 412 may include, or otherwise be configured based on, a component of the transformer 414 (e.g., the leakage inductance and/or magnetizing inductance of the transformer 414). It should be appreciated that the resonant sinusoidal waveform generated by theresonant tank circuit 412, and other sinusoidal waveforms discussed herein, may be embodied as sinusoidal or sinusoidal-like waveforms. That is, a sinusoidal waveform may be embodied as a “pure” sinusoidal waveform or otherwise include some amount of distortion, offset, or other waveform imperfections due to dead time, nonlinearity of thetransformer 414, and/or other circuit parameters and/or operational characteristics. - The
transformer 414 may be embodied as a two or more winding transformer having a primary winding electrically coupled to, or otherwise forming a portion of, theresonant tank circuit 412 of the full bridge LLCresonant converter 404 and a secondary winding coupled to therectifier 406. Thetransformer 414 is configured to convert an input AC waveform at the primary winding to a second AC waveform at the secondary winding. The first and second AC waveforms may have substantially equal frequency and may or may not have substantially equal voltages. Therectifier circuit 408 is electrically coupled to the secondary winding of thetransformer 414 and configured to rectify the second AC waveform to a DC waveform supplied to thepower bus 302. Of course, it should be appreciated that aninput converter 300 having other circuit topology and/or additional or fewer modules may be used in other embodiments. - An embodiment of the
input converter 350 is illustrated inFIGS. 5-7 . Theillustrative input converter 350 is electrically coupled to theDC source 104, which is embodied as a photovoltaic cell, atelectrical connections filter capacitor 500 andinductors DC source 104 at theelectrical connection 550. Theenergy storage device 410 is illustratively embodied as a capacitor, and thecapacitors switches DC source 104 at theelectrical connection 552. Thecapacitor 410 is further electrically coupled to theswitches electrical connection 554. Although each of theswitches - The
inductor 502 is electrically coupled to theswitches electrical connection 556, and theinductor 504 is electrically coupled to theswitches electrical connection 558. As indicated above, each of theswitches inverter controller 310 to control operation of theinverter 106. The control circuit may use PWM to control theswitches resonant capacitor 506 is electrically coupled in series between theelectrical connection 556 and aresonant inductance 508. Theresonant inductance 508 may be embodied as, or otherwise include, a physical inductor and/or represent the leakage inductance and/or magnetizing inductance of thetransformer 414, an inductance associated with one or more discrete inductors, and/or the inductance of a circuit path (e.g., circuit board traces). - The
illustrative transformer 414 includes a primary winding 510 electrically coupled to theresonant inductance 508 and theelectrical connection 558 and a secondary winding 512 electrically coupled to the rectifier circuit 408 (seeFIG. 7 ). Thetransformer 414 provides galvanic isolation between the primary side converter circuitry (including the DC source 104) and the secondary side circuitry (including the power bus 302). The turns ratio of thetransformer 414 may also provide voltage and current transformation between the first AC waveform at the primary winding 510 and the second AC waveform at the secondary winding 512. As shown, therectifier circuit 408 is embodied as a full-bridge rectifier formed from a plurality ofdiodes bus capacitor 522, or other energy storage device, for filtering the DC bus waveform. Of course, in other embodiments, other circuit topologies may be used in therectifier circuit 408. - It should be appreciated that, in the illustrative embodiment, the
boost converter 400 includes thecapacitor 410, theinductor 502, and theswitches boost converter 402 includes thecapacitor 410, theinductor 504, and theswitches FIG. 6 via separate dashed boundary lines. Additionally, as shown inFIG. 7 , the full bridge LLCresonant converter 404 includes the resonant tank circuit 412 (i.e., theresonant capacitor 506 and the resonant inductance 508), thetransformer 414, and the bridge circuit formed by theswitches boost converters - During operation of the
converter 350, theswitches switches inverter controller 310 to operate with a phase shift relative to one another, which permits theboost converters switches switches illustrative boost converters inverter controller 310 may operate theboost converters inverter controller 310 may control theboost converters boost converters boost converters boost converters capacitor 410, which in turn feeds the full bridge LLCresonant converter 404. In particular, thecapacitor 410 regulates the voltage across the bridge consisting of theswitches switches diagonal switches switches switches 422, 424), theresonant capacitor 506 resonates with theresonant inductance 508 and energy is transferred from thecapacitor 410 to the secondary side of thetransformer 414 during the resonation. - As indicated above, the full bridge LLC
resonant converter 404 outputs a “smooth” sinusoidal wave rather than a square wave, which eliminates the need for an active voltage clamp and permits “soft” switching. That is, theswitches switches diodes diodes diodes - At the end of the interval during which the energy is transferred across the
transformer 414, the high-voltage side diodes switches side switches switches switches inductors -
- Vi is the input voltage, D2 is the duty cycle of the corresponding switch, Vbus is the voltage across the
power bus 302, f is the frequency, L is the inductance of thecorresponding inductor power bus 302. - Referring now to
FIGS. 8A-8D , simulated waveforms illustrating various operational characteristics of theinput converter 350 are shown. In particular,FIG. 8A illustrates a voltage 800 (i.e., a drain to source voltage) across theswitch 420 and a current 802 flowing through theswitch 420 over time. As shown atpoint 804 and described above, theswitch 420 engages in zero-voltage switching. That is, theswitch 420 is turned on when thevoltage 800 across theswitch 420 is zero or substantially near zero.FIG. 8B illustrates avoltage 810 across theswitch 422, a current 812 flowing through theswitch 422, and an input current 814 of thecorresponding inductor 502 over time. As shown atpoint 816, theswitch 422 also utilizes zero voltage switching. As shown,FIG. 8C illustrates a current 820 flowing through theoutput diode 514 and a current 822 flowing through theoutput diode 516. It should be appreciated that the current 820, 822 waveforms through thediodes corresponding diode diode -
FIG. 8D illustrates waveforms of theresonant tank circuit 412. In particular,FIG. 8D illustrates a voltage 830 (shown as Vab inFIGS. 5-7 ) generated by the bridge formed from theswitches voltage 832 across theresonant capacitor 506, and a resonant current 834 (e.g., the current flowing through the resonant inductance 508). As shown by the illustrative waveform, thevoltage 830 is a tri-level square wave, which has abrief period 836 of zero voltage that corresponds with the dead time in which all of theswitches period 838, aperiod 840 of zero current, a negative half-sinusoidal wave for aperiod 842, and anotherperiod 844 of zero current. - It should be appreciated that, in the illustrative embodiment, energy is transferred to the secondary side of the
transformer 414 during the positive and negative voltage-level periods. The duration, tactive, of each positive and negative voltage-level period may be determined according to -
- In order to achieve soft switching of the
output diodes FIG. 9 , when that condition is satisfied, the resonant current 834 drops to zero prior to the step change of theinput voltage 830 for adead time 900. For that reason, unlike traditional resonant converters, there will be little or no circulating energy in theresonant tank circuit 412 of theinput converter 350. In the illustrative embodiment, the condition, 0.5tr=tactive, is satisfied by theconverter 350. - Referring now to
FIG. 10 , in another illustrative embodiment, theinput converter 300 is embodied as a DC-to-DC input converter 352. Theillustrative input converter 352 includes aresonant circuit 1000, aninverter circuit 1002, acapacitor divider 1004, atransformer 1006, and arectifier circuit 1008. Theresonant circuit 1000 is illustratively embodied as an LC tank circuit and is electrically coupled to theinverter circuit 1002 and configured for electrical coupling to theDC source 104. In some embodiments, when coupled to theDC source 104, theresonant circuit 1000 and theDC source 104 function similar to, and may be treated as, an “ideal” current source for purposes of analysis. Theinverter circuit 1002 is embodied as a DC-to-AC inverter circuit configured to convert the DC waveform supplied by theDC source 104 to an AC waveform delivered to thecapacitor divider 1004, which generates a divided voltage that is supplied to a primary winding of thetransformer 1006. Thetransformer 1006 may be embodied as a two or more winding transformer having a primary winding electrically coupled to thecapacitor divider 1004 and theinverter circuit 1002. Thetransformer 1006 is configured to convert the first AC waveform supplied by thecapacitor divider 1004 at the primary winding to a second AC waveform at the secondary winding. The first and second AC waveforms may have substantially equal frequency and may or may not have substantially equal voltages. Therectifier circuit 1008 is electrically coupled to the secondary winding of thetransformer 1006 and configured to rectify the second AC waveform to a DC waveform supplied to thepower bus 302. - An illustrative embodiment of the
input converter 352 is illustrated inFIG. 11 . As shown, theinput converter 352 is electrically coupled to theDC source 104, embodied as a photovoltaic cell, via theresonant circuit 1000. In the illustrative embodiment, theresonant circuit 1000 is embodied as an LC circuit including aninput capacitor 1120 and aninput inductor 1122. Theinverter circuit 1002 is illustratively embodied as a half-bridge circuit formed by a plurality ofswitches inverter circuit 1002 may include a different number of switches and/or be otherwise embodied as a full-bridge circuit. As indicated above, each of theswitches inverter controller 310 to control operation of theinverter 106. For example, thePWM controller 312 of theinverter controller 310 may use PWM to control theswitches inverter circuit 1002 converts the DC waveform from theDC source 104 or, more particularly, from theresonant circuit 1000 to a first AC waveform based on the control signals received from theinverter controller 310 as discussed above. Additionally, although each of theswitches - The
capacitor divider 1004 is electrically coupled to each of thetransformer 1006 and theinverter circuit 1002. In the illustrative embodiment, thecapacitor divider 1004 includescapacitors transformer 1006 includes a primary winding 1132 electrically coupled to thecapacitor divider 1004 and theinverter circuit 1002 and a secondary winding 1134 electrically coupled to therectifier circuit 1008. As shown, thetransformer 1006 includes a leakage inductance, which is represented inFIG. 11 by aresonant inductance 1136 electrically coupled to the primary winding 1132 of thetransformer 1006. Of course, as indicated above, theresonant inductance 1136 may be embodied as, or otherwise include, as a physical inductor and/or represent the leakage inductance and/or magnetizing inductance of thetransformer 1006, an inductance associated with one or more discrete inductors, and/or the inductance of a circuit path (e.g., circuit board traces). Thetransformer 1006 provides galvanic isolation between the primary side converter circuitry (including DC source 104) and the secondary side circuitry (including power bus 302). The turns ratio of thetransformer 1006 may also provide voltage and current transformation between the first AC waveform at the primary winding 1132 and the second AC waveform at the secondary winding 1134. - More specifically, in the illustrative embodiment of
FIG. 11 , theinput converter 352 is electrically coupled to theDC source 104 atelectrical connections input capacitor 1120 and theinput inductor 1122 are electrically coupled to theDC source 104 at theelectrical connection 1150. Thecapacitors switch 1126 are electrically coupled to theDC source 104 at theelectrical connection 1152. In the illustrative embodiment, theswitches input inductor 1122 at anelectrical connection 1154, and thecapacitors electrical connection 1156. Theresonant inductance 1136 is shown as being electrically coupled in series between theelectrical connection 1154 and the primary winding 1132 of thetransformer 1006. The primary winding 1132 is further coupled to thecapacitors electrical connection 1156. - The
rectifier circuit 1008 is electrically coupled to the secondary winding 1134 of thetransformer 1006 and configured to convert the second AC waveform supplied by thetransformer 1006 to a DC bus waveform supplied to thepower bus 302. In the illustrative embodiment, therectifier circuit 1008 is embodied as a half-bridge rectifier formed from a plurality ofdiodes capacitors rectifier circuit 1008. Therectifier circuit 1008 may also include an energy storage device, such as abus capacitor 1146, for filtering the DC bus waveform. In particular, the secondary winding 1034 of thetransformer 1006 is electrically coupled to thediodes 1138, 1040 at an electrical connection 1158 and electrically coupled to thecapacitors electrical connection 1160. Further, thebus capacitor 1146 is electrically coupled to thediode 1138 and thecapacitor 1142 at anelectrical connection 1162 and is electrically coupled to thediode 1140 and thecapacitor 1144 at anelectrical connection 1164. - It should be appreciated that, in some embodiments, the
input converter 352 may operate according to similar principles as theinput converter 350. For example, in the illustrative embodiment, theinput converter 352 is embodied as the half-bridge topological counterpart to the converter 350 (i.e., a full-bridge boost resonant converter). Similar to theinput converter 350, the resonant operation of theinput converter 352 eliminates the need for active clamping, and the output power is regulated by varying the duty cycle and maintaining a constant or near-constant frequency. - Electrical schematics of the
input converter 352 illustrating aflow 1200 of current through theinput converter 352 at various stages of operation are shown inFIGS. 12A-12D . For ease of discussion, it should be appreciated that theinput inductor 1122 is carrying a positive, nearly-constant current with low ripple. Referring now toFIG. 12A , before theswitch 1124 turns on, current flows through the body diode of theswitch 1124 and through thetransformer 1006. It should be appreciated that a parasitic capacitance is present across theswitch 1124, which prevents the voltage of theswitch 1124 from instantly rising or falling (e.g., to zero); instead, there is some delay in such voltage transitions. Accordingly, the parasitic capacitance across theswitch 1124 is discharged by the current flowing through the body diode of theswitch 1124. When the voltage of theswitch 1124 reaches zero (i.e., a low stress condition), theswitch 1124 is turned on by virtue of zero voltage switching. At that point, thecapacitor 1128 resonates with theresonant inductance 1136 of thetransformer 1006 and with thecapacitor 1142. After thetransformer 1006 current resonates back to zero, theoutput diode 1138 prevents the continued resonation in the reverse direction. - It will be appreciated the resonant frequency, f1, at this stage may be expressed according to:
-
- where n is the turns ratio of the secondary side to the primary side of the
transformer 1006, L4 is theresonant inductance 1136, C1 is the capacitance of thecapacitor 1128, C2 is the capacitance of thecapacitor 1130, and C3 is the capacitance of thecapacitor 1138. Further, the turns ratio, n, may be expressed as -
- where nsec is the number of turns of the secondary side of the
transformer 1006, nprim is the number of turns of the primary side of thetransformer 1006, Vo is the output voltage of theinput converter 352, and is Vc the voltage across thecapacitors switch 1126, and the voltage across thecapacitors -
- where D is the duty cycle.
- Referring now to
FIG. 12B , after theswitch 1124 is turned on, the current flow through the non-body diode portion (e.g., the MOSFET portion) of theswitch 1124, rather than through the body diode of theswitch 1124, and begins supplying energy to thecapacitors transformer 1006 and both of thediodes switch 1124 is then turned back off. As shown inFIG. 12C , theswitch 1126 is turned on and the current of theinput inductor 1122 flow through theswitch 1126. By virtue of the switching from theswitch 1124 to theswitch 1126, resonance is excited between theresonant inductance 1136 and thecapacitor 1130, which causes thetransformer 1006 to conduct and thediode 1140 to turn on. The resonant frequency, f2, at this stage may be expressed according to: -
- where C4 is the capacitance of the
capacitor 1144 and the other variables are similar to those described above. - Referring now to
FIG. 12D , the resonant half-cycle, which may be similar to the current 834 ofFIGS. 8D and 9 , has completed and thetransformer 1006 therefore stops conducting. That is, thetransformer 1006 current falls to zero, theswitch 1126 is conducting (i.e., the non-body diode portion), and neither of thediodes switch 1126 then turns back off. For a brief period thereafter (i.e., a dead time), both of theswitches input converter 352 resumes operation similar to that described above in reference toFIG. 12A . In other words, in the illustrative embodiment,FIGS. 12A-12D embody a complete cycle of operation of theinput converter 352. - Referring now to
FIGS. 13A-13C , simulated waveforms illustrating the operation of various circuits of theinput converter 352 ofFIG. 11 . In particular,FIG. 13A illustrates a current 1300 flowing through thediode 1138, a current 1302 flowing through thediode 1140, avoltage 1304 across thediode 1138, avoltage 1306 across thediode 1140, and avoltage 1308 across thecapacitor 1128 over time.FIG. 13B illustrates a current 1310 flowing through theswitch 1124, a current 1312 flowing through theswitch 1126, a current 1314 flowing through theinput inductor 1122, a current 1316 flowing through thecapacitor 1128, and a current 1318 flowing through thecapacitor 1130 over time.FIG. 13C illustrates avoltage 1320 across theswitch 1124 and avoltage 1322 across theswitch 1126 over time.FIG. 13C also illustrates adriving signal 1324 of theswitch 1124 and adriving signal 1326 of theswitch 1126 over time. As shown atpoint 1328 and described above, theswitches corresponding switch corresponding voltage - It should be appreciated that the
input converter 352 may exhibit characteristics that are advantageous to a DC-to-DC boost converter in some implementations and may be similar to the benefits of the topology of theinput converter 350. For example, the resonant operation of theinput converter 352 may generate a relatively sinusoidal waveform across thetransformer 1006, eliminate the need for an active clamping circuit, and/or permit soft switching of theoutput diodes 1138, 1140 (i.e., thediodes - There is a plurality of advantages of the present disclosure arising from the various features of the apparatuses, circuits, and methods described herein. It will be noted that alternative embodiments of the apparatuses, circuits, and methods of the present disclosure may not include all of the features described yet still benefit from at least some of the advantages of such features. Those of ordinary skill in the art may readily devise their own implementations of the apparatuses, circuits, and methods that incorporate one or more of the features of the present disclosure and fall within the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims.
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